"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows that it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows that it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve. It does not matter whether you are a lion or gazelle. When the sun comes up, you had better be running."

-----Half-light, purblind streams where moonlight washes over trees / Lustred with a glow, as if from pearls upon the throat Where the night's kiss lights upon her; rose's rhapsodies, / Warm as oils, imbue this bliss-fed hour with trembling note "Where-? And who-?" Her breath's unspoken soul is light's perdueThat, hidden, seeks the unseen with a sigh… "Ah, L'inconnu!"

"Who is an old man? An old man is someone who can tell you when the sun, bacon and sex where considered healthy"

(Edited by HunterKiller at 9:57 am on July 17, 2007)

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Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences. J. K. Rowling

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He ached all over. It wasn't just that his brain was writing cheques that his body couldn't cash. It had gone beyond that. Now his feet were borrowing money that his legs hadn't got, and his back muscles were looking for loose change under the sofa cushions.

Terry Pratchett: The Fifth Elephant

-----Half-light, purblind streams where moonlight washes over trees / Lustred with a glow, as if from pearls upon the throat Where the night's kiss lights upon her; rose's rhapsodies, / Warm as oils, imbue this bliss-fed hour with trembling note "Where-? And who-?" Her breath's unspoken soul is light's perdueThat, hidden, seeks the unseen with a sigh… "Ah, L'inconnu!"

Actually, I found that in a site that claimed it to come from JK Rowlings's official website, but I've had no time to check.

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Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.~Groucho Marx

-----Republic has to do with a bizarre concept called democracy, in which ruling power is given to whomever is most skillful at directing the herd instincts of the largest masses of their most ignorant citizens...

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